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LinuxBeta.com's latest Linux beta slideshow is of the Spanish Debian based Guadalinex 2004 RC4.

Independent medical schemes manager Medscheme has contracted Unisys Africa to install two ES7000 servers running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. These are to replace the company's existing SCO UnixWare servers.

The London Borough of Newham has signed a deal with Microsoft which it said will be cheaper to support than migrating its systems to Linux. The deal follows a comparison of the costs and benefits of Microsoft versus Linux - carried out by consultancy Capgemini - which concluded that Newham could reduce support costs by 13.5 per cent, or £3.2m over five years, by using Microsoft products. This is double the £1.6m saving from using Linux.

Linux Networx announced today that two Department of Defense (DoD) high performance computing centers have each received a 256-processor Evolocity(R) Linux Networx cluster computing system. The cluster procurement is part of the Technology Insertion 2004 (TI-04) program, an initiative to continually modernize the Department of Defense high performance computing (HPC) capabilities.

Welcome to the Mandrakelinux Community Newsletter -- dedicated to keeping you up-to-date with the latest Mandrakelinux-related news & info.

Officials at the London Borough of Newham denied on Monday that they had faked an interest in deploying Linux to force Microsoft to dramatically cut its licensing costs.

Linux is freely available to all who care to download it, but commercially supported distributions cost real money as New Zealand company Weta Digital is discovering while it mulls over where to head with its 3200-processor Linux cluster.

We introduce, today, the JDS Community Newsletter: Volume 1, Number 1! This is the first of what we expect to be many issues covering activities in the Java Desktop System development, support and user communities. We look forward to providing an important and trustworthy source of information about JDS resources as well as developer and user experiences on a regular basis.

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced that it would be offering crippled versions of Windows at a reduced rate to developing countries. The company said that the strategy is meant to address piracy that is prevalent in these areas due to a public that receives exceptionally lower income levels as compared to the rest of the world. David Sugar submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews, which shows that Microsoft's intentions aren't as noble as the company implies and that this is simply one more example of the company using its illegal monopoly position to stifle competition.

Early adopters of Novell's Nterprise Linux Services say the package lets them consolidate server operating systems and offers a smooth migration path to Linux from NetWare servers.

In an earlier column, we went over the basics of creating key-pairs: the public and secret versions of your GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) keys. But if you're a government employee who wants to become a whistle-blower and report corruption, evil-doers, or gross mismanagement, you'll need to do more than create your keys. You'll need to encrypt and sign the email you send me with your exposé.

..and chances are high they also can monitor all other communication systems. Big brother can read your e-mail and so forth. Luckily, protection is available. The protection is GNU Privacy Guard, a tool allowing you to secure your mail and instant message chats. The voice and video phone program Gnomemeeting allows you to call other Internet users free, but it does not support encryption.